1170s births

Leonardo Bonacci ( – ), commonly known as Fibonacci, was an Italian mathematician from the Republic of Pisa, considered to be "the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages".

German minstrel singer (c. 1170 – c. 1230)

King of Hungary (1175-1235)

Subutai ( 1175–1248) was a Mongol general and the primary military strategist of Genghis Khan and Ögedei Khan. He ultimately directed more than 20 campaigns, during which he conquered more territory than any other commander in history as part of the expansion of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in human history. He often gained victory by means of sophisticated strategies and routinely coordinated movements of armies that operated hundreds of kilometers apart from each other. Subutai is regarded as one of the greatest military commanders in history, and the single greatest in M

13th-century emperor of Nicaea

King of Jerusalem and Emperor of Latin Empire of Constantinople (c.1170-1237)

Emperor of Constantinople

Al-Malik al-Kamil Nasir ad-Din Muhammad (; – 6 March 1238), titled Abu al-Maali (), was an Egyptian ruler and the fourth Ayyubid sultan of Egypt. During his tenure as sultan, the Ayyubids defeated the Fifth Crusade. He was known to the Frankish crusaders as Meledin, a name by which he is referred to in some older western sources. As a result of the Sixth Crusade, he ceded West Jerusalem to the Christians and is known to have met with Saint Francis.

King of Jerusalem (1177-1186) (r. 1185-1186)

leader of the Albigensian Crusade

Dominican Master General, archbishop and saint, catholic jurist from Catalonia

Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad (r. 1225–1226)

12th-century Punjabi Sunni Muslim preacher and mystic

Prince of Antioch (1172-1233)

Count of Maurienne and Savoy, Marquess in Italia

despot of Epirus

Austrian duke

Latin Empress consort of Constantinople

Duke of Saxony

Empress consort of Nicaea

French noblewoman (1164-1230)

Spanish noblewoman (1177-1229)

Occitan troubadour

Grand Princess consort of Serbia

Count Palatine of the Rhine

Castilian historian and bishop (1170-1247)

German noble

Catholic cardinal

Grand master of the Knights Templar

(1177-1236)

Duke of Pomerania-Stettin

English nobleman and soldier

Duke of Opole-Racibórz

Portuguese princess, nun and blessed, Lady of Alenquer

'''Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan 'Alī ibn Yūsuf ibn Ibrāhīm ibn 'Abd al-Wahid al-Shaybānī (), called al-Qifṭī' (; – 1248), was an Egyptian Arab historian, biographer, encyclopedist and administrator under the Ayyubid rulers of Aleppo. His biographical dictionary Kitāb Ikhbār al-'Ulamā' bi Akhbār al-Ḥukamā'' (, tr. 'History of Learned Men') is an important source of Islamic biography. Much of his vast literary output is lost, including his histories of the Seljuks, Buyids and the Maghreb, and biographical dictionaries of philosophers and philologists.

Archbishop of Canterbury and saint

Queen of Scotland from 1186 to 1214

French mathematician

mercenary and pirate from France

First Latin Patriarch of Constantinople

Cambro-Norman-Irish noblewoman and one of the wealthiest heiresses in Wales and Ireland

(1172-1242)

Chief Justiciar of England, Regent of England, Earl of Kent (c.1170–1243)

German rabbi

Illegitimate son of Byzantine Emperor Andronikos I and Theodora Komnene, queen consort of Jerusalem

cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

(1176-1242)

Count of Rodez and Viscount of Carlat from 1208 until his death

Countess Palatine of the Rhine (1176-1204)

Byzantine general and usurper

French aristocrat

poet

French Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint-Brieuc

12th-13th century Japanese poet

French noblewoman

Frisian scholar

Italian poet, judge and statesman

French feudatory (1200-1233)

Scottish Earl